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Monday, April 13, 2009

Eee? Eeeeeeee!

Just unpacked my Eee; I've been saving up lunch money for a goodly while now. And this blog entry is -- natcherly! -- via the gadget. No, wait, not thatgadget!

My hope is that having a book-sized machine handy will be a help in writing. I'd take the Marko approach but I often have to look up and link to many things, sooooo. Here we are. (Besides, I'm pretty sure my starship-tekkie alter ego has one already).

And now I have to go turn off the "tap on the fingerpad = left click" function. Never have got on well with it. Can't have the netbook in my hand five minutes without messing with it.

6 comments:

Which one did you get? My annual bonus--one week after XMas--bought me a 1000HA; part of the reason I went for this one is the rated 7 hours of battery life (five is the best I've managed thus far in real life). The idea is that I use this with digital modes on the ol' "pork" radio.

There's a custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed just for the Eee: Eeebuntu.You'll probably scream after about a week trying to use the right-hand-side shift key. Apparently everyone does. (See Amazon reviews concerning this).

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